Sentence examples for Altruistic deed from inspiring English sources
The donations keep rolling in, perhaps because cutting off one's hair for charity is an altruistic deed that doesn't require a financial contribution, which may be why it appeals so much to children.
Dr. Myers was impressed that she was up and about after her recent altruistic deed and told her, "If it weren't for that first commandment, I'd worship you right now".
The Conservative government, however, has managed to cause people to question altruistic deeds.
That's the climax to one of its three stories, which all focus on the altruistic deeds of pious teachers in different countries; in the other two segments, two lovers find themselves a world apart in Senegal and Afghanistan.
In that respect, most definitions of supererogation in modern ethics diverge from the Christian tradition: whereas for the latter paradigm examples of supererogation are piety and chastity, for the former these are altruistic deeds of extreme beneficence.
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Participants in studies who are shown altruistic deeds -- from establishing neighborhood gardens, to rock singers helping impoverished communities -- are then more likely to donate money themselves.
Donations to a monastic community, altruistic practice of spiritual disciplines, and good deeds are ways of generating merit that may be dedicated to relieving the purgatorial suffering of beings imprisoned in sorrowful rebirths or in transit between lives.
Many have altruistic motives.
